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TASMANIAN FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC. PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250 State Secretary: [email protected] Home Page: http://www.tasfhs.org Patron: Dr Alison Alexander Fellows: Neil Chick, David Harris and Denise McNeice Executive: President Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Vice President Anita Swan (03) 6326 5778 Vice President Denise McNeice FTFHS (03) 6228 3564 Executive Secretary Miss Muriel Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Executive Treasurer Miss Betty Bissett (03) 6344 4034 Committee: Judy Cocker Rosemary Davidson David Harris FTFHS Isobel Harris John Gillham Libby Gillham Peter Holloway Judith Whish-Wilson Beverley Richardson Helen Stuart By-laws Officer Denise McNeice FTFHS (03) 6228 3564 eHeritage Coordinator Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Exchange Journal Coordinator Thelma McKay (03) 6229 3149 Home Page (State) Webmaster Peter Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Journal Editor Leonie Mickleborough (03) 6223 7948 Journal Despatcher Leo Prior (03) 6228 5057 LWFHA Coordinator Anita Swan (03) 6326 5778 Members’ Interests Compiler John Gillham (03) 6239 6529 Membership Registrar Judy Cocker (03) 6435 4103 Projects & Publications Coord. Rosemary Davidson (03) 6278 2462 Public Officer Denise McNeice FTFHS (03) 6228 3564 Registrar General BDM Coord. Colleen Read (03) 6244 4527 Research Coordinator Mrs Kaye Stewart (03) 6362 2073 State Sales Officer Mrs Pat Harris (03) 6344 3951 Branches of the Society Burnie: PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 [email protected] Devonport: PO Box 587 Devonport Tasmania 7310 [email protected] Hobart: PO Box 326 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 [email protected] Huon: PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 [email protected] Launceston: PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250 [email protected] Volume 24 Number 1 June 2003 ISSN 0159 0677 Contents Editorial . 2 President’s Message . 3 Notice of Annual General Meeting . 4 Branch News . 5 William Purton: Tasmanian Settler–Geelong Pioneer, Barbara Bolt . 9 The Convict Ship Joseph Somes, James Halsey . 13 Port Arthur Muster, 10 August 2003, Susan Hood . 20 The Lady Nelson—Her Story, Jonathan Davis . 21 Home sought for photographs, R. Kellett . 23 A Brief History of Clan Leslie, J. Barrie Leslie . 24 Surprises!! Kate Carlisle . 27 My Family History, Ashlee Carpenter-Gregory . 28 Subscription and Exchange Journals . 29 Queries, New Members’ Interests and New Members . Insert Supplement . Insert George Van Diemen, Rosemary Brown. 33 Tasmanian Bigamist, Helen Harris OAM . 37 The Queries Page, Christine Woods . 38 Tasmanian Place Names, Susan L. Waters. 39 William Emmerton —An Old Colonist, Dorothy Corbett . 43 Progress out the back in the ‘You Know What’, Irene Schaffer . 45 Pioneers who lived in Kiama and district area up to 1920 . 46 Lost, Stolen or Strayed … and Found! . 47 Genes on Screen, Vee Maddock . 50 Tasmaniana Library, State Library of Tasmania, New Acquisitions . 52 From the Exchange Journals, Thelma McKay . 54 Book Review . 56 Coming Events . 57 Library Notes . 59 Society Sales . 64 Deadline dates for contributions: 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October EDITORIAL Journal Committee Leonie Mickleborough Rosemary Davidson, Jeannine Connors, David Hodgson, Welcome to this issue of Tasmanian Charles Hunt, Vee Maddock, Ancestry, the first in Volume 24. Each of Denise McNeice, Cynthia O’Neill, Leo Prior, the four issues of Volume 23 was posted Kate Ramsay and Colleen Read. to an average of 1465 addresses both in Australia and overseas. This total, as Journal address well as individual members, includes PO Box 191 Launceston Tasmania 7250 other societies. Such wide distribution or email [email protected] means that our journal is accessible to many people. I received an indication of the success Articles are welcomed in any format— of this program recently, when a member handwritten, typed or word processed, on of the GSV contacted me for information disk, on CD Rom, or by email. Disks and about an article we had published, and photographs will be returned on request. which he had read in the GSV library. Deadline dates are: Commencing on page 29 is a list of the 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October journals of other societies which are available for our members to access. The opinions expressed in this journal are These can be borrowed by the branches not necessarily those of the editorial and read their library. committee nor of the Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. Responsibility rests The nautically-minded will find two with the author of a submitted article and articles of particular interest. One on the we do not intentionally print inaccurate Lady Nelson and the other on the Joseph information. The society cannot vouch for Somes, which includes a list of convicts the accuracy of offers for services or goods transported to the colony in 1846. Our that appear in the journal, or be responsible March issue included an article on Clan for the outcome of any contract entered into Macfarlane, and this issue, on page 24, with an advertiser. The editor reserves the we include a brief history of Clan Leslie. right to edit, abridge or reject material. Dorothy Corbett examines William If you wish to contact the author of an Emmerton, an 1850s pioneer around the article in Tasmanian Ancestry please write area of Stanley, and similarly, the life of care of the editor, enclosing a stamped William Purton, another early colonist, is envelope and your letter will be forwarded. explored by Barbara Bolt. © The contents of Tasmanian Ancestry are Our September journal will have subject to the provisions of the Copyright articles with a sporting theme. I have Act and may not be reproduced without already received an indication that there written permission of the editor and author. will be at least four different sports represented, so even at this early stage it promises to be full of interest. Cover: The Lady Nelson near Stanley, Happy reading of this issue, and I Tasmania, see article on pages 21 to 23. welcome your comments. Photograph © Irene Schaffer Leonie Mickleborough 2 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Y the time you read this report, next task is to set up the network so that branches will be about two either computer can access the Internet B months into the new financial through the one connection. Because the year with their newly elected committees. use of computers is becoming a bigger I would like to thank sincerely all those and bigger part of nearly everything that members who have been in an elected we do, I ask the question should we have position within their respective branch more articles or help files on computers committees during the last twelve and their general use for genealogy? months. Often it can be a thankless task, Congratulations to Vee for her article in but a most essential one. However, last March’s Tasmanian Ancestry, in without the help given by elected which she gave a very succinct and members and the volunteers who do helpful description on how to use search library duty, help with branch pub- engines on the Internet. If you use the lications and projects, our society would Internet for research and if you are having cease to exist. To those of you who have trouble in locating the right information, just been elected to branch positions for have a look at Vee’s article from the last the first time I would like to say thank edition. you for coming forward to seek election. I would also like to remind members If you can put into our organisation about the requirements that we are personal effort, you will be rewarded obliged to follow in regard to the many times over with new friends, new Amendments of the Privacy Act 1988. information, personal development and a On the current membership form there is greater understanding of the one of the a choice of two boxes, one of which most popular hobbies in the world. should be ticked so that we know if we During February, I was invited to give a have your permission to publish your presentation to the Hobart Branch. I must contact details in Tasmanian Ancestry say that I was made extremely welcome and elsewhere. We are still receiving and I enjoyed the evening very much. forms on which no box has been ticked. The Hobart group members are certainly Under the Act we have no option but to friendly and I suggest that any other ‘Out withhold publication of any details of that of Town’ people who venture to the member in any of our publications. southern populated areas of our State It was three years ago that our Society would be most welcome if they dropped decided to change its name from the in to say hello at the Hobart Branch Genealogical Society of Tasmania Inc. to Library. Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. Genealogy is not the only hobby I enjoy. and two years since the name was I also derive enjoyment from computers officially changed; how quickly time goes and music. We have just bought a new by. I trust that many of you have made computer and I am going through the arrangements to attend our AGM in process of networking our two Launceston this year and to celebrate our computers. One is running ME, the other second birthday. XP. So far, I have been able to set up a shared folder and a shared printer. The Peter Cocker TASMANIAN ANCESTRY June 2003 3 NOTICE OF MEETING Notice is hereby given in accordance with Rule 14, that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Tasmanian Family History Society Inc. is to be held on Saturday 21 June 2003 at the Quercus Rural Youth Function Centre 415 Oaks Road, Carrick commencing at 2:00 pm Voting is restricted to financial members of the Society and a current membership card may be required as proof of membership.